There is a spot in Burlington, New Jersey, where the menu has barely changed in decades, the staff clips a food tray right to your car window, and the root beer float is the kind of thing people drive across the county for. No app to download, no QR code to scan, no host stand to wait at.
You just pull up, roll down your window, and a uniformed server walks out to take your order. This place has been doing that since long before most of us were born, and somehow it still feels completely fresh.
The loyalty it inspires is real. People who visited as kids keep coming back as adults, now bringing their own children along…